SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
VENUES
The Grand Center for Arts & Culture
State Street Theater

Special Guest
David Rysdahl
The New Ulm Film Festival welcomes Special Guest, David Rysdahl. A native of New Ulm, David has accrued over 50 acting credits on his resume, including television (The Family), feature films (Dead Pigs), and a myriad of short films. He will be sharing a collection of five short films showcasing his range and variety of films.

Invited Film
DAYTIMERS
Directed by Jack Beranek
2019 Accepted Films
Directed by Kate Trefry
How to Be Alone
Narrative, Runtime: 0:12:58
How To Be Alone follows LUCY, as she struggles to survive an increasingly bizarre and horrifying night. When her husband JACK leaves for the hospital graveyard shift, Lucy is left alone in the company of a particularly menacing kitchen cabinet, which she is convinced contains all her most secret fears. As the phobias begin to manifest and attack her, she must fight for control of her mind, and ultimately her life.
Directed by Virgil Widrich
Light/Matter
Experimental, Runtime: 0:05:00
A black-and-white film that lets you see colors.
Attention! This film contains flashing lights which may not be suitable for light-sensitive epilepsy.
Initially barely noticeable, the first dim flashes of light become continuously brighter and more intense over a period of five minutes. Towards the end they become a staccato of light and dark stimuli that evoke psychedelic colour impressions in the audience. "Light Matter" takes advantage of a physiological phenomenon where the rapid change from light to dark triggers color perception in the brain without the detour via the receptors of color vision in the eye.
Directed by Nik Nerburn
The Great American Think Off
Documentary, Runtime: 0:55:31
Every year, rural New York Mills, Minnesota (population 1,199) hosts a philosophy competition for everyday Americans. Four different people from around the country debate in front of the citizens of this west-central Minnesota town, arguing over questions like “Does Life Have Meaning?”, “Does Technology Free Us or Trap Us?", and "Does Poetry Matter?”. Each year, a new Great American Thinker is chosen by a citizen vote in the high school auditorium.
Directed by Adrian Meyer
Harvardstein, U.S.A.
Documentary, Runtime: 0:06:00
A junior at the University of Arizona's B.F.A. Film program, Adrian brings his passion for music and the color purple into all of his projects. Alongside a small group of fellow artists, he aims to make the filmmaking process as collaborative as possible, blurring the lines of documentary and fiction.
Directed by James C. Martin
Under the Whale
Documentary, Runtime: 0:11:00
“Under the Whale" features the making of a dance/play performance piece on public high school age students in Queens, New York, and Manhattan. The piece is about climate change. It is a documentary of sorts but it is also a personal narrative showing climate change as a sociopolitical problem.